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Valentine's brings charity success for building society

Staff from the region’s largest building society showed love for their first charity of the year with a day of fundraising.

Employees at the Newcastle Building Society’s head offices and 36 branches organised a dress down day and raffle for Valentine’s Day, raising £1,000 for the Maggie’s Freeman Hospital Cancer Centre appeal.

In spring 2008, Newcastle Building Society chose the Maggie’s appeal as its first dedicated charity, and is closing in on the £25,000 fundraising target it set for the year.

Money has been raised by individual staff members, teams and departments through a variety of methods, including sky-diving, the Great North Run and a number of events which are planned to help fundraisers reach this target by the end of April.

The fundraising for Maggie’s will take place alongside the society’s existing work with the Community Foundation, to which it has donated more than £600,000 since 1997, and other initiatives including Macmillan, Children in Need and Jeans for Genes.

Gillian Tiplady, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at Newcastle Building Society, said: “We’ve had a fantastic response from our staff to the fundraising drive for Maggie’s over the year, both in terms of the time and the money they’ve given to the cause, and we’re getting close to the £25,000 target that we set ourselves, a target to which these latest events brought us ever closer.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .